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"If you give a mouse a cookie, then he's going to ask for a glass of milk." These iconic words from Laura Numeroff's classic tale offer a great example of conditionals, a topic covered in the handout as part of a larger writing series related to citation, style, and sentence level concerns. The line from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie represents an example of a first conditional, but the handout also covers zero, second, and third conditionals.
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Instructional Ideas
- Challenge learners come up with silly scenarios, such as "If you forgot your homework, you would have to jog three miles around the school."
- Mix up different parts of sentences and have scholars try to match them up using the correct time references
Classroom Considerations
- Requires an understanding of basic verb tenses
Pros
- Uses one consistent example among each type to help make the differences clear
Cons
- Lacks an overview or summary that shows where this skill is likely to appear in writing
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